CIA “Whistleblower” Told Hastert About Suppression of Harman Wiretap

[BlueJessamine]

Source: CQ Politics

By Jeff Stein, CQ Staff

Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert says he learned from a CIA-connected “whistleblower” in 2006 that Bush administration officials were suppressing the existence of a wiretapped conversation between Rep. Jane Harman and a suspected Israeli agent.

John D. Negroponte, former head of the then newly established Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), had blocked then CIA Director Porter J. Goss from briefing Hastert, according to the account the whistleblower gave the former Republican House speaker.

Gen. Michael V. Hayden , who became CIA director upon Goss’s forced resignation in May 2006, also had not informed Hastert about the wiretap, according to what the whistleblower told Hastert’s aides.

Under a decades-old agreement between Congress and the CIA, the head of U.S. intelligence was supposed to brief the top House Republican and Democrat if one of their members became ensnared in a national security investigation


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[aquart]

1. Oh, Denny has long needed to be in jail.

[PDJane]

2. Isn't Hastert involved in the

Sibel Edmonds case? Wasn't he one of the names that came up as being involved with shady dealings OD? (over dere...middle east. Turkey, I think.)

[seemslikeadream]

4. yep and guess who is a new lobbyist for Turkey

[Kittycat]

7. And his son is polling to run for his old seat vs. Foster.

Polling Calls have been reported in our area, skewed to support RNC questioning.

[Solly Mack]

3. Been like thugs on parade lately

Now if only the parade route ended in prison

[IndianaGreen]

5. Every day there is a new revelation

Our government was made up of incompetent thugs that trampled on the Constitution.

[Solly Mack]

6. Yes

[Snazzy]

8. wouldn't this be treason? Clear cut, isn't it?

Which I guess they decided was ok considering Plame. That case Bush admin reveals covert op for political reasons.

This time, got Negropoonte, Goss, Gonzales, and Hayden (so far) interfering in espionage investigation for political reasons.

[No Elephants]

9. Harman was no prize either---if the story is true. Neither were Haestert and Pelosi.

[Supersedeas]

10. bipartisan effort to make this go away?